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Sunday, January 13, 2013

Sunday Morning Bonus Pulp: Argosy, June 5, 1937

A little late getting this posted this morning, but here's another of my favorite covers, from an issue of ARGOSY that I read about ten years ago. And a fine issue it is, too, with the cover story by H. Bedford-Jones, a novelette by the great Theodore Roscoe, a short story by Frank Richardson Pierce, and serial installments from Frederick Faust ("The Smoking Land" as by George Challis), Lester Dent ("Hocus-Pocus"), Lawrence Blochman, and Martin McCall, who may have been E. Hoffmann Price. ARGOSY is one of my favorite pulps -- although trying to get all the installments of a serial can be maddening at times.

John,Nope, haven't gotten around to reading THE SMOKING LAND yet, but I know right where my copy of the Capra Press reprint is (unlike some of the books I know I own but couldn't find to save my life). That means I probably will read it eventually. I've heard that it's good, too.

I took a look at my copy of the magazine because I started to wonder, just who is the artist of this cover? It's signed by Emmett Watson who lived 1892-1955 and was quite a prolific cover artist doing many covers for the Munsey pulps(Argosy and Detective Fiction Weekly) and also such slicks as The Saturday Evening Post.